Public trust in Russian President Vladimir Putin has fallen to its lowest level in 13 years, according to a Russian state pollster.

The poll conducted by the Public Opinion Research Center, found that trust in the Russian president had fallen to 33.4 percent, its lowest level since 2006.

Reuters reports that the results, however, do not pose an immediate problem for Putin, who won a landslide election victory and a new six-year mandate in March last year, but could embolden any potential future adversaries.

Putin’s overall approval rating, which is different from his trust rating, is still high at just over 60 percent. However, it has slipped from its peak of nearly 90 percent amid dismay over falling household incomes and unpopular government moves to raise the retirement age and hike value added tax.

Putin’s trust rating hit a high of 71 percent in July 2015 after Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimea the previous year.

Despite the results the poll issued, Putin remains far more trusted than any other politician in Russia, the same poll showed.

British Prime Minister Theresa May tried to break the parliamentary deadlock over Brexit on Monday, by proposing to seek further concessions from the European Union in order to prevent custom checks on the Irish border.

However, May told parliament a “no-deal” Brexit could not be taken off the table as there was no approved alternative yet, and that the European Union would not postpone Britain’s exit date, scheduled for March 29.

Reuters reports that there is still no agreement in London on how and even whether it should leave the world’s biggest trading bloc. May’s plan for Brexit was defeated by the most votes in modern British history after it was rejected 432-202 by lawmakers last Tuesday.

“No-deal will only be taken off the table by either revoking Article 50, which turns back the results of the referendum – the government will not do that – or by having a deal, and that is what we are trying to work out,” May said.

She also noted that another referendum is off the table as it would strengthen the hand of those seeking to break up the United Kingdom and could damage social cohesion by undermining faith in democracy.

The White House announced on Friday that a second summit will take place between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in February.

The announcement came after the president met with Kim Yong Chol, North Korea’s lead negotiator on nuclear talks to discuss “denuclearization and a second summit, which will take place near the end of February,” according to press secretary Sarah Sanders.

“The President looks forward to meeting with Chairman Kim at a place to be announced at a later date,” Sanders added.

Kim Yong Chol met with Trump in the Oval Office after the North Korean envoy met with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a Washington hotel.

After their meeting, Sanders characterized the meeting as “productive.”

“The President had about an hour-and-a-half-long meeting. There was a US delegation; we’ll send out those specific names here shortly. I can tell you Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was in the room, as were others from the President’s team. It was productive and we’re going to continue those conversations,” she added.

A top North Korean nuclear envoy met president Donald Trump at the White House after engaging in talks with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday to discuss the groundwork for a second summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

Reuters reports that the visit of Kim Yong Chol, Pyongyang’s lead negotiator with the United States and a former spy chief, signaled a potential movement in a denuclearization effort that has stalled since the first United States-North Korea summit that took place in Singapore last year.

Kim Yong Chol and Pompeo posed together for photographs at a Washington hotel before talking for about 45 minutes. After that meeting, the White House said Trump hostel Kim Yong Chol in the Oval Office to “discuss relations between the two countries and continued progress on North Korea’s final, fully verified denuclearization.”

The State Department said after Friday’s meeting that Pompeo had a “good discussion” with Kim Yong Col “on efforts to make progress on commitments President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un made at their summit in Singapore.”

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said France would start preparing for a no-deal Brexit.

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said a no-deal Brexit looks “less and less unlikely” and has launched a contingency plan to prepare for it.

Philippe said laws had to be passed and millions invested in French ports and airports, after the UK Parliament rejected the withdrawal agreement.

An European Union official will now visit all 27 capitals to co-ordinate no-deal plans.

Some EU countries with close ties to the UK have already begun preparing for its departure on March 29, without a deal.

European Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas, said: “We are taking this very seriously now as the possibility of a no-deal Brexit is becoming more possible after Tuesday night. This is work which is ongoing and it’s developing fully. We are not taking any chances.”

The BBC reports that Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and UK Prime Minister Theresa May had texted each other since her defeat in Parliament on Tuesday, but they had not spoken.

Meanwhile, Germany’s Economy Minister, Peter Altmeier, has warned that “everyone in Europe would lose” from the UK leaving without an agreement.

A Chinese court on Monday sentenced a Canadian man to death for drug smuggling, while Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned China for using the death penalty arbitrarily.

The ruling, and Trudeau’s reaction, could sour relations between the two countries, following the arrest of a senior Chinese executive in Canada and the detention of two Canadians in China.

Reuters reports that the Dalian Intermediate People’s Court in China’s northeast province of Liaoning retried Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, who had appealed his original 15-year prison sentence, and decided on execution, the court said in a statement.

“It is of extreme concern to us as a government, as it should be to all our international friends and allies, that China has chosen to begin to arbitrarily apply [the] death penalty… as in this case,” Trudeau told reporters in Ottawa.

China-Canada ties worsened after the arrest of Men Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, in December. She was arrested in Vancouver on an U.S. extradition warrant.

Trudeau said Ottawa “will continue to engage strongly” with Beijing over China’s arbitrary use of justice.

“The Canadian government will make representations in Beijing, but based on past experience I am not sure whether this will work,” Trudeau told the CBC. “We are in a very difficult place.”

The United States military has begun the process of withdrawing troops from Syria, according to confirmation by a defense official on Friday, who said it was expected the process would take between 90 and 120 days.

According to CBS News, America’s operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) were to continue during the withdrawal process.

A spokesman for the coalition fighting ISIS confirmed earlier in the day to The Associated Press that “the process of our deliberate withdrawal from Syria” was underway.

“Out of concern for operational security, we will not discuss specific timelines, locations or troops movements,” he said in a statement emailed to The Associated Press.

According to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the conflict in Syria through a network of activists on the ground, the withdrawal began Thursday night. The observatory said a convoy of about 10 armored vehicles, in addition to some trucks, pulled out from Syria’s northeastern town of Rmeilan into Iraq.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the United States will work with allies to “expel every last Iranian boot” from Syria.

Pompeo warned there would be no US reconstruction aid for areas controlled by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad until Iran and its proxies had left the region.

Pompeo also criticized former President Barack Obama’s Middle East policy, says he had made “dire misjudgments”.

Pompeo’s remarks came while in Cairo. His comments came three weeks after President Donald Trump said US troops were pulling out of Syria, which had caught both international and domestic allies off guard.

The BBC reports that the Secretary of State has been seeking to reassure allies following Trump’s surprise announcement, and said: “America will not retreat until the terror fight is over. We will labor tirelessly alongside you to defeat Isis, al-Qaeda and other jihadists that threaten our security and yours.”

The Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that trade talks with the United States had concluded, and that results would soon be released.

The ministry said that the extension of the negotiations into an unscheduled third day suggest the serious nature of the discussions.

CNBC reports that Asian stocks jumped after the talks were extended for an unexpected third day, fueling optimism that the world’s largest economies could strike a trade deal to avoid a confrontation that would disrupt the global economy.

“I think they went just fine,” said Ted McKinney, U.S. Under Secretary of Agriculture for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs, to reporters, about the negotiations.

Originally scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, the negotiations were extended by a day amid signs of progress.

This week’s meetings are the first face-to-face talks since President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed in December to a 90-day truce in their ongoing trade war.